Georgia Anne Muldrow is a name I have heard countless times throughout the course of my musical searchings, but have never paid proper attention to. It’s unfortunate that I overlooked her soulful ways for such a long period of time. As soon as I hit play on her latest collaboration with Declaime entitled “Mind Traveling,” I was engulfed by the soulful sound Read the rest of this entry »

Taira Turley

First Look: “Death Of Spider-Man” Covers [CBR]

Chris Rock Comes to Pregnant Woman’s Rescue [Gossip On This]

Kanye West’s Beautiful Dark Twisted Punch Lines [TUD]

LeBron James’ New $9 Million Mansion in South Beach [The Hoop Doctors]

The Future Of Oprah [Slate] Read the rest of this entry »

Words by C. Paicely

“Even if you ain’t a rapper…Somebody else out there got to be able to relate to this. I don’t care if you work at McDonald’s. It got to be somebody on the night shift hatin’ on you ‘cause you got the weekends off.”

As the recently re-caged king and VH1 now know, a lot can change between the recording and airing of a concert. In late August, T.I. took to the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, promoting his new album, King Uncaged and VH1 was there for the taping. Between then and now…yeah, we know. Read the rest of this entry »

Rosa Acosta was the gift that just kept on giving at The Section this week. As valuable as her red-hot assets were, she wasn’t the only one who left a blaze of glory. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve never been a movie buff, so taking my word where American Gangster ranks amongst Denzel’s best work should come with a grain of salt. However, anytime a director can create an enjoyable film about drug dealing with an A-List actor, that’s a win-win in my book. Read the rest of this entry »

Def Jam’s Gorilla took some leisure time in his natural habitat in between shooting this video to pound his chest in front of Derek Pike’s camera lens. Even a few lionesses came out to congregate in the concrete watering hole. You can never know what to expect in the heart of the D-Block jungle. Read the rest of this entry »

Tragedy nearly struck yesterday morning as music legend, Prince, was caught wandering in the natural habitat of the animal kingdom’s most vicious and hungry monstrosities, much to the delight of onlooking menopausal wildebeasts. Read the rest of this entry »

So get this. Michael “Shagg” Washington of Cypress Hill fame is suing Rockstar Games for $250 Million over wrongful use of his likeness. Apparently Rockstar met with Shagg in 2003 and adopted the tales of his youth involving gang life and bike riding as inspiration to create CJ, GTA San Andreas’s main character. It’s easy to laugh this off as a money grab on Shagg’s part but it basically breaks down like this: Read the rest of this entry »

Melo-X strives to be a producer’s producer and you have to respect that type of creative drive, no matter how familiar you are with his work. Too often we see beatmakers presenting compilations that resulted from dozens of emails where files were received and resent without maintaining any sort of congruity. The Brooklynite’s newest and freshest project to date, More Merch, aims to keep the glue between beats and lyrics. Read the rest of this entry »

Rap eats its old. At least that’s the story the media sells but it’s slightly untrue. Rappers revere the reigning elders, yet don’t celebrate them in song as much as maybe they should. Unfortunately, this is much different than another genre like Rock where an upstart band can cut its teeth doing covers of musical influences while simultaneously sharing in sort of oral folk history, keeping alive the names of songs and bands from yesteryear. Read the rest of this entry »

What happened to OnSmash and Splash’s sites was an eye opening revelation. For the most part, the Hip-Hop blogosphere is a tight-knit community. Of course, we all want our own share of acclaim which can lead to disagreements at times. Yet, seeing another snatched up – by the feds at that – is something which affects everyone. No one knows what the future exactly holds, but it has forced some changes in our small neck of the woods. It is what it is though and like with anything in life, Read the rest of this entry »

Billboard:

“At the moment, we’ve got an Advent calendar on our website, and there is a daily door that opens to reveal a gift,” Gorillaz co-founder Jamie Hewlett told Perth Now (via Spinner) in Australia, where the group is currently on tour. Read the rest of this entry »

Could Dre, Jimmy Iovine and Interscope finally decide to put Detox on store shelves in 2011? The odds are improving since “Kush” has been fairly well-received – or at least not panned like other leaks – and branded as an official single. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t know anything about Gods’illa. Good ol’ Langston direct deposited the video via email and the only real informational tidbit he gave was that the clip is directed by 6ix Shoota, the same guy behind Raheem’s dirty tape. But as soon as I hit play, “Glaciers” immediately took my mind back to a time warp place when rap was heavily infused with 5% teachings Read the rest of this entry »

Because we need people like Hell Rell. Powered by Dipset exec Duke Da God, Ruger’s bringing back black mask music and I’ll give it a chance in the whip based off the few tracks previously released. Read the rest of this entry »